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Found in East Anglia Benjamin Brown ..Exhibition open until Saturday 30 September ..Benjamin Brown has a free and easy approach to the making of his work. He explores the world with a playful spirit and an open mind, much as a child might. ..As he travels around East Anglia he picks up materials that people have discarded in skips or left lying by the side of the road – boards, lengths of timber, paint – as well as gathering elements from nature like mud, grass or moss. These resources then become the materials that Benjamin uses to make his paintings and sculptures. ..Most of us would see these items as detritus – unwanted stuff that clutters up the space around us – and we would tend to ignore it. But this stuff comes directly from the people who live here – their leftover tins of paint, unwanted boards or timber from a building project, an old framed poster that has fallen out of favour and been thrown outside to rot – they all speak of the society that produces them, moves them around, then discards them to pass out of sight and mind. ..By appropriating these objects and making works from them, Benjamin is making work that speaks of a hidden landscape – not the picturesque and bucolic ones that Constable and Gainsborough favoured, rather the ignored, unseen and forgotten that many of us contribute to but not many consider. He absorbs the essence of the place he lives in then reconfigures it to create his abstract works.

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Found in East Anglia Benjamin Brown .|Exhibition open Saturday 5 August to Saturday 30 September 2017Monday to Saturday 10am to 5pm |.-Abstract artworks made in Manningtree between 2015 and 2016 using materials reclaimed from East Anglia..-Benjamin Brown has a free and easy approach to the making of his work. He explores the world with a playful spirit and an open mind, much as a child might. ..As he travels around East Anglia he picks up materials that people have discarded in skips or left lying by the side of the road – boards, lengths of timber, paint – as well as gathering elements from nature like mud, grass or moss. These resources then become the materials that Benjamin uses to make his paintings and sculptures. ..Most of us would see these items as detritus – unwanted stuff that clutters up the space around us – and we would tend to ignore it. But this stuff comes directly from the people who live here – their leftover tins of paint, unwanted boards or timber from a building project, an old framed poster that has fallen out of favour and been thrown outside to rot – they all speak of the society that produces them, moves them around, then discards them to pass out of sight and mind. ..By appropriating these objects and making works from them, Benjamin is making work that speaks of a hidden landscape – not the picturesque and bucolic ones that Constable and Gainsborough favoured, rather the ignored, unseen and forgotten that many of us contribute to but not many consider. He absorbs the essence of the place he lives in then reconfigures it to create his abstract works...Benjamin Brown (b.1989) is an emerging artist living in Manningtree, the smallest town in the UK. He started painting in 2015. As a musician he has played in various bands and is currently a member of SuperGlu and Dingus Khan, whose new album, Dunce Kap, will be released on Saturday 3 November, following a performance at Colchester Art Centre on Friday 2 November. The video of My Number, a song from the new album, is being shown for the first time as part of his exhibition at The Minories. #colchester#mannintree#benjaminbrown#foundineastanglja

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You might have seen that our forthcoming exhibition artist Benjamin Brown had an incident in his studio with some fire .. leaving him with burns to the face and arms. Here he is with the source of the accident . His exhibition Found in East Anglia will be opening tomorrow ( Friday 4 August ) from 6-9pm. Join us in celebrating his exhibition and that he walked away from the fire. #Colchester#theminoriesgalleries#BenjaminBrown#FoundinEastAnglia

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📍benjamin browns [orchard] [NEW]•🍪: The Cookie Monster ($16++)•@thebenjamins.sg has done it again with their over the top milkshakes. this time, four new fancy shakes to perk up ur week. this one here is the cookie monster flavored wth cookies n cream.